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6 Reviews
Blast Chamber: An Overlooked PS1 game.
I remember playing the demo for this game when I first got my PlayStation in 1998. I played it quite a bit, but I eventually bought some games, such as Tomb Raider and Jet Moto, and as it goes, once you have full games to play on a new system, demo discs are easily ignored.
I never bought the game then, but in the years after that I've thought back to that demo and how fun it was, but could not remember the name of the game, and it seemed to be the only demo disc of mine that I could not find. After asking around online a couple years back I discovered the name of the game. Blast Chamber.
The game is very fun, even if the graphics are incredibly dated. You are placed inside of a cube that rotates when you hit switches. In the level is a star that needs to be placed into a goal. Each cube is a puzzle that involves turning the cube and passing obstacles and avoiding deathtraps to get the star, and then get it to the goal before time runs out. There are power-ups and power-downs that help or hurt you while you try to accomplish this. And there are many, many cubes, and surprisingly, each one has a very different puzzle to solve. That's just the single-player portion of the game. And its fun.
The multiplayer portion of the game has up to four people facing off in a cube of your choosing. Each player has a goal somewhere on the map, and they have to get the star and make it to their goal before another player interferes and gets the star from them. If another player turns the cube, it means you and any other player falls. This could mean simply falling and having to get back up. This could mean falling and losing the star, or it could mean falling onto spikes or a pit of fire, or who knows what else, and ultimately dying. If you go to long without putting a star in your goal, you explode. Once you run out of lives you are out of the game. Whoever has the most goals and least deaths at the end wins.
It's a great game. Unfortunately anyone who has the game now(me) probably has nobody else to play with them and is stuck to just the single-player puzzles. But even that is satisfying enough for a purchase. Especially at the price I found it for on Ebay.
If Activision released an updated version of this game for current-gen or next-gen consoles, with fancier effects and better graphics, and ofcourse online multiplayer if they are smart. I'd definitely pick it up and play with friends. But that is unlikely, as most people don't know about the original game.
Downsides of the game? The players are not 3-D models and because of this it can be hard to tell how deep into the Cube your character is at times. When you are crunched for time and you think you are in front of a switch, only to find out you are a little passed it, or not close enough to it, it can be a pain. Or could mean death. And playing the multiplayer portion against the PC is pointless. You can't beat it. It follows you perfectly and pushes you over and steals the star too easily.
I do recommend this game. But it's very rare and you will most likely be playing alone and only take advantage of the single-player aspect of it. And because the game is simply you inside of a cube, running around, playing alone can seem a lot more solitary and depressing than other single-player games. Even though I can praise this game, I'm not playing it because after a while I do get that "waste of time" feeling that happens after playing some solitary games, even if I like them.Read full review...
Blast Chamber
In the single player game, the player navigates through 60 different cube-shaped puzzles, known as chambers. The player must collect a crystal orb and drop it off in the marked zone before time runs out or the player explodes and must start over. The game places heavy emphasis on the ability to kick the walls of the cube at certain points which causes the entire chamber to rotate, which is vital to that player reaching the end of each puzzle. Getting to the end of each puzzle gets progressively more difficult and more and more obstacles stand in your way. These range from platforms, to spike pits, to giant fans. Once the crystal is dropped off in the designated zone (the crystal chamber), the player then moves on to the next level. The only 'reward' the player obtains is after each level (a level consisting of a number of zones), is a small cut-scene where the player sees his character unstrapping his chest armor and tossing the C4 bomb away just before it explodes. Single player mode is always 'red player'. On a second note, the four characters are never named, nor even given a gender as the body looks more or less androgynous though it's presumed they are all male.Read full review...
ps1 fun!
have been looking for this game for a long time! very fun game!
Great game, Simple game play, challenging computer players.
Great game from the old school. Simple game play and very challenging computer players. They will not just stand around and let you beat them, they give you a serious run for your money. Many maps to choose from with many different obstacles to challenge you.Read full review...
Good old fun
I bought Blast Chamber because I used to own it back when it first came out. I liked playing it then and I still like to play it now.
fug yea
this fuggin game is so fuggin good i fuggin love playing it while drinking a lot of fuggin coffee. fug yea